The Fever - Rilegato

With The Fever, Megan Abbott has created a mesmerizing, modern portrait of teenage life today: Brutal crushes, competing allegiances and first-bloom sensuality, all magnified by the rush and crush of technology. The Fever holds true to its title: It's dark, disturbing, strangely beautiful and utterly unshakeable. (Gillian Flynn, author of GONE GIRL)

If the phenomena that led to the Salem Witch trials were to revisit the world today, it might very well look like the scenario in Megan Abbott's engrossing, disturbing, panic attack of a novel, The Fever. In a time when suicide and pregnancy pacts can go viral, this story of mass hysteria in a high school is not only completely plausible - it's impossible to put down. (Jodi Picoult, NYT bestselling author of THE STORYTELLER)

Fans of Gone Girl will seize upon this dark and thrilling tale about a mysterious illness that sweeps through a small-town high school community, unraveling long-held family secrets along the way. (Stylist)

Right now America's best novelists are women, and Megan Abbott is up there at the top. (Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher series)

Few writers evoke the politics and paranoias of young adulthood as masterfully as Megan Abbott. She tells her tale with deftness and precision, and it grips from beginning to end. A fabulous achievement. (Simon Lelic, author of RUPTURE)

The lives of teenage girls are dangerous, beautiful things in Abbott's stunning seventh novel . . . Abbott expertly withholds just enough information to slowly ratchet up the suspense until the reader is as breathless as Deenie at the arrival of each new text message or cryptic phone call and the school vibrates with half-formed theories and speculations . . . Nothing should be taken at face value in this jealousy- and hormone-soaked world except that Abbott is certainly our very best guide. (Kirkus (starred review))

Remember your baffling, insecurity-stricken, traumatic teenage years? Well, add to the flurry of hormones an inexplicable violent illness that sweeps through the school and you find yourself caught in the delicious mystery of Megan Abbott's latest high-school thriller . . . The context of a mid-American town and the intricately described background details supply just the right amount of normality to make the drama all the more enticing . . . the subtle, yet undeniable, sexual tension was particularly well done . . . I wouldn't want to be a teenager again, but it's surprisingly thrilling for just a few sordid hours. (Stylist)

An amazing novel . . . dripping with tension and bubbling with burgeoning sexuality (Doug Johnstone, Books of the Year 2014 Herald)

A hugely gripping psychological thriller (Irish News)

Megan Abbott is, in my opinion, the best writer of contemporary thrillers working today. Her last two novels, The End of Everything and Dare Me, were pinpoint examinations of the modern teenage girl's mindset, blended with nerve-shredding, nourish plots, creeping tension and deep characterisation. The Fever is even better (Doug Johnstone Independent on Sunday)

For fans of Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, The Fever is Megan Abbott's dark and thrilling novel about a mysterious illness that is taking hold of a high school.